Susanna then wanted to work out exactly what happened with Gemma – and why her skating partner said she blacked out on the ice before the tumble.

She explained: "When is on to Matt after I said I felt like I blacked out and he said, ‘When you’re called an athlete, you go into this zone and you almost do have a sort of a blackout, because you’re in performance mode.’

"I was in excruciating pain but I was so embarrassed, I had to get up and put a brave face on it."

Ouch! Gemma falling on Sunday’s live show
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At this, Piers continued to leap to her defence and tell her how much he admired her decision to keep going despite her injury, which set her back for days in the following week of rehearsals.

Dancing on Ice airs Sundays at 6pm and Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.